Doxology

Definitions

An expression of praise to God, especially a short hymn sung as part of a Christian worship service.

Equivalents

Examples

“The doxology or sacred hymn, which celebrates the glory of the Trinity, is susceptible of very nice, but material, inflections; and the substance of an orthodox, or an heretical, creed, may be expressed by the difference of a disjunctive, or a copulative, particle.”

“And when those defendants were remonstrated with, their captain snapped his fingers in the plaintiffs’ teeth, and assured them that by way of doxology to the deed he had done, he would now retain⟳ their line, harpoons, and boat, which had remained attached to the whale at the time of the seizure.”

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